Naked Songs, p. 18
Poetry, From Kashmiri Poetry
“I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Austrian Romantic composer
Unsourced in Musician's Little Book of Wisdom (1996) by Scott E. Power, Quote 416.
Misattributed
Georges Seurat (1859–1891) French painter
as quoted in Post-Impressionism, From Van Gogh to Gauguin, John Rewald, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1956, p. 86
undated quotes
Lalleshwari (1320–1392) Indian writer, mystic and saint
Lal Ded Vekhas http://ikashmir.net/lalded/vakhs.html <br class="br">Poetry, From Kashmiri Poetry
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) German mathematician and physical scientist
Letter to Farkas Bolyai, on his son János Bolyai's 1832 publishings on non-Euclidean geometry.
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Variant: That which is really beautiful has no need of anything. (trans. George Long)
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV, 20
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author
To Flush, My Dog http://www.webterrace.com/browning/To%20Flush%20My%20Dog.htm, st. 14 (1844).
Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer
Source: The Paris Review interview (1981), p. 322
Context: It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
“Though my body gets older, I still commune with the child inside.”
Lorin Morgan-Richards (1975) American poet, cartoonist, and children's writer
Instagram social media post by the author on (6 November 2017).
